Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-23
The Dallas Convention Permanently
Organized With EX-SENATOR
Maxey as Chairman.
3 Committee Appointed to Formulate a
Caurse CT Actlen to b. Reported TO
the Convention To-Day.
The Inaeuon sf the Railroads a General
Subject for Uafavorsbls Comment.
The Convention Ignored.

Dallas immigration Convention was solid.
Men of means, business sense, and alive
to the best interests of the state. It WAS
g peculiar audience to look upon. There
were no ladies pr resent, nc curious spec
tetors, no one "doing the languid," no
one with scheme Occasionally the
head and lusty lungs of politician were
! seen and heard, but he was
not numerous-he did not seem
| to colODiZe - there was just
enough of him to lend tone and variety to
the substantial phalanX Of business men.
The opera house wss not heated,
through some mistake or other, and the
newspaper men rubbed their fingers and
listened to the music made by their chat
teripg teeth-their own teeth-and the
audience was blue with cold.
At 10 O'Clock Mr.. J. S. Daugherty came
to the front Of the stage and sitter posing
bright snoemaker's hammer aloft for
sometime undoubtedly let 1t orop on the
table snd called "order" in stentCrisn
tones, which vas obeyed IDeekiy by the
audience. The operGhouse was SO full OF
delegates thst some # them had to mount
the stairs and secure
SEATS IN THE GALLERY.
ne lDWSE tJOIllOI VA Vic AOUJS W6o
labeled with numbers Of few Senatorial
districts, and between these delegations
secured seats as best they could.
"Read the resolutions" said Chairman
Dausber;y.
Major J. f. Elliott approached the
footl ghts and resd the proceedings held
hy the merchants and business men of
Dallas, shortly after the immigration
avs hu
The reading of the resolutions elected
considerable applause-in fact, they were
received with enthusiasm. When Maior
Elliott flashed reading the resolutions
Captain J S. Daugherty arose ard read
sPesch which for cold facts and irresist-
s5le logic has never been surpassed any
where. Captain Daugherty read slowly,
his enuE cietOn wSs distinct and MS tones
measured and impressive. Everybody
listened to II as ty revelation srd drank
down his words with eagerBess il was
g business speech By business man
to business men, and while there
were Id eky-scraping sentences or
periods, built especially for the exercise
Of a resonant lung DO yer, Il carried more
weight and had Bore effect than could all
the elCquence CT rhetoric. Nor was
dreary or tireseme, by any mesDs. Ii
was carefully prepared and nicely worded
and the perCrauon was "sWeetenedn just
enough with flowers Of language 20 leave
nice impression.
The Captain WAC heartily and deserv-
eddy cheered throughout, and would haye
acquitted himself gracefully had not
Dallas been 80 strong in him. He was
full of Dallas and could not help it. He
did not yield the floor to others who had
speeches to make, nor cay: Gentlemen,
nominations for temporary Chairman ere
now IN order" No, Dallas Was strong III
him ard he could not help il. He
added postscript to his speech by way
Of nominating Hon. Henry ExgIl "of
Lsmpasas for chairman, and he was
declared elected Some dissenslon be-
coming aUdihle, Mr.. Exsn arose and
m0destly declined to serve, unless it was
made apparent that il YES the unanimous
wish Of tbs convention.
Mr. Paddcck q Fort Worth arose.
Mr.. Paddock moved that the Hon.
Henry Exau "ot DAllss" be elected by
reclamation.
"You ought to have heard that 'of Dsl-
Iss'"
WheN!
There were fnAdats!ns If s&rczsm piled
upon ezci s}lia5la ard the convention
seemed 70 each the meaning Of is and
gave vent TO their f., lln2s il = bQrs. CT
applause. TEE motion, after having the
pnrsSet ! gY corrected passed aui Msi r
Eliot iO' d ike he had lost something
ard dii not know exactly what; but WAS
ECt Ciepored to worry over it.
Gr Exsl cane upon tie stage aud
no - - h.
COZ tered, comp i9ented the personnel
OF fae meeting, ]bQded its Cbj5cts and
pictured on In glowing terms the grand
possibi tiles CT the state.
On m tier, Mr, George BgTne, CT the
Gainesville Register, Was elected secre-
tarY. George blushed and took his seat
Hon. Henry Hulep, looking as big as
swell ed mountain, laughed.
Mayor ConnOr came upon the stage and
welcomed the delegates in the name of
the municipal government Of the city.
His speech was "business" end ought to
be sent out as model. He said every
thing that was necessary; said il well,
and took only e very few minutes 50
do it.
hon. James B. Simpson moved that
committee on credentials &nd permanent
Senatorial district.
Mr.. Simpson was standing near the
stage. He is thin and pale, and spoke so
meekIy that some Of the delegates thought
it was some smSll boy who WAS asking
permission to go out. Everybody looked
as him and looked only minute until
they found out that he wss the Dallas
Oliver that was hencsforth to meet Capt.
B. B. Paddock, Fort Worth's Roland He
wss there, watching, and when Captain
Paddock drew bead on the chairman
with his index finger Mr.. Simpson mould
ed q linguistic bullet to shoot at him.
There was some squsbbliDg and mo-
tons to sci)urn innumersble, but the
motion finally passed.
Ga motion, the representatives Of the |
were invited to come in and par |
ticipate, and the chair was sughoriz ed |
and instructed to notify the railroad men |
of the fact.
On motion, adjournment was had until |
p. m.
How cold 1t Was!
The following is the list of the dele
gates to the Dallas convention from Fort |
Worth: w. j. Bosz, Charles Scheuoer,
Colonel j. P. Smith, E. E. Chase, W. S.
Pendleton, T. P. Marin Jas w Swayne,
I. Dahlman, 2 c. Rose, B Fl Sellers, j.
M. Robbins, o. S. Kenne6y,W P Wilson,
W. ID. Connolly, j. P. Woods, E. S. Gard,